Reduced speed on secondary French roads 90kmh to 80kmh

[rich888]

hdrflow said:

Jasandjules said:

Possibly

But I never got any attention when I drove from one end of France to the other and back again.

This is also my experience

Totally agree, we've driven for miles from the UK via Eurotunnel to Coquelles or Calais for a brief stop-over at one of the many inexpensive B&B Hotels, http://www.hotel-bb.com/en/home.htm then onto Le Touquet on the west coast via the coastal road rather than the motorway, and what a pleasure it is been to drive along their roads with very little traffic to encounter, no traffic-jams, ultra smooth roads [apart from Paris which is best avoided in a car] and no potholes. I just feel sorry for any French drivers driving over from France to the UK when they hit the M25 and the shockingly poor state of our roads plus all the speed cameras...!!!!

Our politicians and council jobsworths should be ashamed with themselves at the way they have let the standards drop whilst they continue to milk the system. Oink Oink Oink said mr piggy.... Come to dinner said mr Wolf...

[paulwirral]

I've never been bothered in 12 years up to 6 times a year through France , is this the same pistonheads where people complain about foreigners coming to England and ignoring English traffic regulations ?

[paulwirral]

I've never been bothered in 12 years up to 6 times a year through France , is this the same pistonheads where people complain about foreigners coming to England and ignoring English traffic regulations ?

[Rude-boy]

paulwirral said:

I've never been bothered in 12 years up to 6 times a year through France , is this the same pistonheads where people complain about foreigners coming to England and ignoring English traffic regulations ?

About the same here.

As in the UK and everywhere in the World. Know the rules of the game you are playing and, if you think that those rules are a little tight and that you might be tempted to break them, the penalties. You can then make a call as to what you choose to do.

It's not the Autoroutes that bother me but the one onion towns that drop the limit from 90 to 50 in the blink of an eye before you have even noticed that there is an onion grower's house there. But keep your eyes open and you will not be surprsed often.

[XJ Flyer]

paulwirral said:

I've never been bothered in 12 years up to 6 times a year through France , is this the same pistonheads where people complain about foreigners coming to England and ignoring English traffic regulations ?

I'd guess that most real petrol heads would actually welcome the idea of anyone taking advantage of the immunity from licence endorsements when running outside of their own country so long as it's in the right place at the right time.Such as in the case of French type clear motorway/traffic conditions.